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The funding rules are based on the administration’s position that diversity, equity and inclusion policies are discriminatory and illegal under federal law, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridge district General Manager Denis Mulligan had argued it was necessary for the board to rescind earlier district resolutions containing DEI language in order to preserve access to a $400 million Department of Transportation grant the agency is counting on for a seismic retrofit of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several board members said they were uneasy with abandoning support for equity programs under pressure from the Trump administration, saying they believe it could embolden federal authorities to impose even more restrictive conditions on future funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly the choices in front of us are awful,” said Sonoma County board member Gerard Giudice. He offered a compromise: replacing a 2020 board resolution with one containing a more general declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1372\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-1536x1054.jpg 1536w, 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is asking its board to repeal commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion programs in response to Trump administration funding restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency General Manager Denis Mulligan called the action “a business decision” that is necessary to ensure the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District receives \u003ca href=\"https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/biden-harris-administration-announces-400-million-improve-golden-gate-bridge-through\">$400 million in federal funding\u003c/a> it’s counting on for a seismic retrofit of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"President Trump pumps his fist after stepping off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Saturday.\" width=\"2560\" 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someplace else,” Mulligan said in an interview. “The question is, should we undo a couple of policies that we know are problematic words to access [these] funds or not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed move faces criticism from the district’s nine-member board, with one representative saying it represents a retreat in the face of an attack on local values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t just live our lives only thinking about business decisions,” said San Francisco Supervisor Joel Engardio, who serves on the bridge district board. “There are things called moral decisions, and this is one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016406\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-13-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" 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in awarding contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A staff report accompanying the Friday resolution notes that although neither of the prior board actions is in apparent violation of federal anti-discrimination law, they could run afoul of a pair of directives from the U.S. Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first of those was \u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2025-04/Follow%20the%20Law%20Letter%20to%20Applicants%204.24.25.pdf\">an April 24 letter\u003c/a> from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to all grant recipients. The letter warned “any policy, program or activity that is premised on a prohibited classification, including discriminatory policies or practices designed to achieve socalled ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion,’ or ‘DEI,’ goals, presumptively violates federal law.”[aside postID=news_12044945 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20241204-BART-JY-009_qed.jpg']The next day, the Federal Transit Administration issued funding guidelines requiring grant recipients to certify that they do not “operate any programs promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that violate any applicable federal anti-discrimination laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulligan argued that the Trump administration directives leave the district with just three “unpleasant choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district could sign a funding agreement for the $400 million grant, which was awarded in 2023, with its current policies in place, but he said that would run the risk of having the grant denied or clawed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district could instead challenge the orders in court, following the lead of about 30 other agencies that sued the administration in a Washington state federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mulligan said that would mean engaging in a process that could take years to play out and delay the seismic project indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, he said, the district can rescind its policies and avoid the uncertainty and delay of the first two options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will allow us to award a construction contract, start strengthening the bridge and put people to work, hundreds of people to work,” Mulligan said. “And so when you look at the three options from a business perspective, that seems to be the most prudent” course of action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with suit and sunglasses gazes out over the edge of Golden Gate Bridge.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denis Mulligan, general manager of the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District, looks at the safety net being installed below the sidewalk on the Golden Gate Bridge on Jan. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The general manager also argued that repealing the board’s previous actions will not alter the district’s commitment to the Bay Area community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we undo two policies, we’re still the Golden Gate Bridge District,” Mulligan said. “You know, this was a bridge that was built with all union labor in the 1930s. It’s a bridge of the people. We provide first-class bus and ferry service to everybody. We treat our employees with dignity and respect. You know, if you’re a vendor, we’re a trusted partner that you can do business with. So none of that changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But board member Engardio called it “disappointing and alarming” that the district would back away from values that should be celebrated.[aside postID=news_12042706 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7164-1020x765.jpeg']“We are talking about a simple statement that said people should be treated with respect, feel safe, and be free from discrimination,” he said, referring to the 2020 resolution. “There is nothing controversial about that statement. And if we start retreating from statements like that, where does it end?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the district retreating from its positions on DEI would send a negative message to its workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re rescinding statements that say, ‘Folks should be free from discrimination,’ what kind of signal does that send to our workers and to the people?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge district is just one of many agencies contending with the implications of the Trump administration’s new demands on recipients of federal funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART has apparently taken down \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250301063106/https:/www.bart.gov/about/business/ocr/diversity\">a page\u003c/a> that promoted its DEI efforts. The page, which was live as recently as early March, has been scrubbed of content and now displays the message “\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/about/business/ocr/diversity\">access denied\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to emailed questions about the page, a BART spokesperson wrote: “The district has reviewed federal guidelines and taken steps to bring its programs into compliance. We are not providing any more details beyond that at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty-one jurisdictions nationwide, including San Francisco, Santa Clara and Sonoma counties and the city of San José, filed a federal suit in Washington state in May challenging the administration’s authority to impose new conditions on funding that had already been awarded. The grants at risk would help pay for homelessness prevention, housing assistance and transportation infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge in Seattle issued \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.347622/gov.uscourts.wawd.347622.169.0.pdf\">a preliminary injunction\u003c/a> against the Trump administration earlier this month, an order now under appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several board members said they were uneasy with abandoning support for equity programs under pressure from the Trump administration, saying they believe it could embolden federal authorities to impose even more restrictive conditions on future funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly the choices in front of us are awful,” said Sonoma County board member Gerard Giudice. He offered a compromise: replacing a 2020 board resolution with one containing a more general declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1372\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-1536x1054.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-1920x1317.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge on April 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Let’s craft a resolution that is based on our values, that the district believes every person has the right to be respected and to be safe,” Giudice said. “That the district and the board of directors show honor, compassion, and the qualities of character that support equal justice and due process for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2020 resolution, passed a month after the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd, originally read:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The District believes every person, regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or transgender status), age, or disability, deserves the right to feel respected and safe within our organization, to feel welcome in using our Bridge and public transit facilities, and to be afforded opportunities on a fair and equitable basis in all transactions involving the District.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new resolution says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The District believes every person deserves the right to feel respected and safe within our organization, to feel welcome in using our Bridge and public transit facilities, and to be afforded opportunities on a fair and equal basis in all transactions involving the District.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board voted to accept the amended resolution by a vote of 11–3, with members Joel Engardio and Danny Sauter of San Francisco and Holli Thier of Marin County voting no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of the agency that operates the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-gate-bridge\">Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a> is asking its board to repeal commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion programs in response to Trump administration funding restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency General Manager Denis Mulligan called the action “a business decision” that is necessary to ensure the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District receives \u003ca href=\"https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/biden-harris-administration-announces-400-million-improve-golden-gate-bridge-through\">$400 million in federal funding\u003c/a> it’s counting on for a seismic retrofit of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"President Trump pumps his fist after stepping off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Saturday.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-2000x1332.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-2048x1364.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump pumps his fist after stepping off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Saturday.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It comes as the Trump administration’s new conditions on funding have pushed agencies across California and the U.S. to review their DEI policies and priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not $400 million we could get someplace else,” Mulligan said in an interview. “The question is, should we undo a couple of policies that we know are problematic words to access [these] funds or not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed move faces criticism from the district’s nine-member board, with one representative saying it represents a retreat in the face of an attack on local values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t just live our lives only thinking about business decisions,” said San Francisco Supervisor Joel Engardio, who serves on the bridge district board. “There are things called moral decisions, and this is one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016406\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-13-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:45 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of mounting pushback, San Francisco’s superintendent of schools is in talks to pause the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ethnic-studies\">ethnic studies\u003c/a> program, according to teachers and a member of the school board who have raised concerns over the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program — which covers topics including identity, white supremacy, sexuality and social movements — has come under increasing scrutiny from some parents and a national education group that have criticized its course materials as biased and “activist-driven.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Superintendent Maria Su is considering reassigning ninth graders enrolled in the course next fall while the district conducts an audit of the curriculum, according to ethnic studies teachers and school board member Matt Alexander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say that the move would deviate from the district’s past protocols for handling curriculum changes and raises concerns about the future of the course, which has been heralded as a success for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a course that’s worked for a very long time,” Alexander said. “There doesn’t seem to be any reason for a pause, and it’s something that’s very effective. In fact, it may be the only initiative that we have that actually increases college and career outcomes for students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More than a decade of ethnic studies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Unified School District became one of the first in the nation to introduce ethnic studies after its board of education called for creating a dedicated course in 2008. The field, which has roots in Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830384/how-the-longest-student-strike-in-u-s-history-created-ethnic-studies\">student activism\u003c/a> in the 1960s, includes and examines the experiences of minorities in the United States, typically focusing on the experiences of Indigenous people, as well as Black, Latino and Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, SFUSD launched a pilot program as an elective for high schoolers, which has been offered on all campuses since the 2015–16 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11918617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11918617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8133.jpg\" alt=\"Children and adults hold signs at a demonstration to save a Filipino language program.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8133.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8133-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8133-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8133-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8133-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of students and community members demonstrates outside SFUSD headquarters on June 7, 2022, to protest the district’s plan to downsize the Filipino language program at Longfellow Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://ed.stanford.edu/news/ninth-grade-ethnic-studies-helped-students-years-stanford-researchers-find\">2021 study\u003c/a> by Stanford’s Graduate School of Education raised the program’s profile when it found that low-achieving students who participated in SFUSD’s course were more likely to attend and be engaged in school, had higher probabilities of graduating and were more likely to go to college. And a new draft study from UC Irvine this year shows that over the 15 years SFUSD has offered the class, taking ethnic studies in ninth grade boosted the GPAs of students throughout their high school careers, especially among those who identify as Black and Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2021 study persuaded policymakers at the state and local levels. That year, California lawmakers enacted a mandate for public schools to require a semester of ethnic studies, which is set to take effect in 2025. That same year, the San Francisco school board passed legislation making the two-semester course a graduation requirement, beginning with ninth graders entering high school in the fall of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one year after lawmakers passed those measures, three of the school board members who backed the SFUSD plan — and other social justice-oriented changes within the district, including renaming schools and eliminating merit-based admissions at Lowell High School — were overwhelmingly recalled. The contentious vote followed a swell of criticism from parents, particularly in the Asian American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parents and advocacy groups push back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Samantha Aguirre, who has taught ethnic studies in SFUSD since 2015, said she had not heard widespread pushback specifically about the course until this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One parent, Vivian Safrin, began raising concerns about the curriculum to district officials last year, after she said she was shown class materials that concerned her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036911\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[Ethnic studies] is supposed to be an opportunity for students to learn about the histories, cultures, struggles and contributions of ethnic groups in California,” she said. “And at this time, the course in San Francisco is a lot of one-sided political dogma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our kids don’t have context to be able to analyze this material, given that it is being taught before world history, before U.S. history,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticism of the course didn’t break into the mainstream until May, though, following media coverage and a report from a national parents’ group about the class’ content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents Defending Education, which said it aims to protect school districts from “activists imposing harmful agendas,” published an “incident report” criticizing the ethnic studies curriculum’s focus on “white supremacy culture” and support for undocumented immigrants.[aside postID=news_12044768 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-07-BL_qed.jpg']Weeks later, an \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/30/sfusd-new-ethnic-studies-mandate/\">article\u003c/a> published in the \u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em> said that one lesson plan viewed by parents asked students to role-play as Israeli soldiers putting Palestinians into refugee camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sfusd-ethic-studies-school-20353723.php\">reported\u003c/a> that a lesson about social movements included as an example the Red Guards, an often-violent militant youth movement that backed Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong during the country’s cultural revolution in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre, along with SFUSD ethnic studies teacher Sarita Lavin and a third who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation since they are not tenured, all told KQED they had never used, or heard of any of their colleagues using, those materials in their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the district’s publicly posted ethnic studies materials currently reference such lesson plans, though at least one of the unit curriculum slide decks contains broken links to slides that it said have been deleted, and it’s unclear when or if changes have been made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not something as an ethnic studies department that we are promoting or teaching en masse,” Lavin said. “I think that that’s just been wildly overblown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046354\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/001_KQED_MichaelRosenbergBalboaHS_04202023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/001_KQED_MichaelRosenbergBalboaHS_04202023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/001_KQED_MichaelRosenbergBalboaHS_04202023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/001_KQED_MichaelRosenbergBalboaHS_04202023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student drawings hang on the wall of a classroom at Balboa High School in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And not all families have had negative experiences with ethnic studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Elena Francis said that when her children took the course, they came home from school feeling like they saw themselves reflected in their curriculum for one of the first times ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both of my children are Puerto Rican, Chicano and Indigenous, so they’re multiracial, multi-ethnic, and don’t often hear their different histories in a classroom,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son is a rising 11th grader, and her daughter, who took the honors course when she was in high school, graduated from UC Berkeley last month with an ethnic studies degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was important to me, it was important to my husband that we saw them coming back and saying, ‘We learned about this and I made this connection with this person,’” she said. “This program did for my children what I did not have as a student in SFUSD. I had never felt that way … and I’m so glad that my children had a different experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We were in the middle of the process’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The teachers who spoke with KQED acknowledged that one of many parents’ resounding concerns with the class was valid: a standardized curriculum for it isn’t complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Aguirre, in the summer of 2021, amid the wider push to expand ethnic studies requirements in the district and across the state, she and other teachers were asked to participate in a working group to develop and vet a more standardized curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046126\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They split into small cohorts focused on each of the course’s four units, swapped and refined lesson plans, and came up with a draft for each of the class’s sections throughout the summers of 2021 and 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the working group had planned to gather to assess their first drafts, give each other feedback and make further changes before delivering a final product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that never happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the summer of 2022, there was no more money or funding to keep doing the process of making the pilot curriculum,” she said.[aside postID=news_12036406 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-HIGHEREDPROTESTS-08-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The work was cut short amid the return to classrooms and mass exodus of district employees after the COVID-19 pandemic and a growing budget deficit, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s available right now on the website when you look at SFUSD curriculum is a lot of our draft work,” Aguirre said. “We were in the middle of the process. Project specialists went in and kind of just made it presentable and put it out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those drafts — in the form of Google slide presentations for each of the class’s four units — include writing prompts, in-class group projects, links to articles and external resources that align with the class’s broader focus areas. The specific materials, Aguirre said, are suggestions, not requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no standardized curriculum for the course, nor is there one for any of the district’s history classes, Aguirre said. Instead, teachers are required to teach based on a bullet-point list of content standards handed down by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a curriculum … that doesn’t exist,” she said, adding that the textbook she’s been using in her world history courses was developed 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pausing the course\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the pushback that’s plagued the end of the school year, the educators said they went into the summer working on updates to their lesson plans and preparing to teach ethnic studies again in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then, about last week, I started hearing murmurs through the different ethnic study teachers that I was already working with over the summer that something might happen and that there was some sort of plan that things might not be the same in the fall,” said the teacher who requested anonymity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a district spokesperson said, “The superintendent is currently in active discussions with principals and various stakeholders regarding high school curriculum and course sequencing for social studies, including Ethnic Studies, in fall 2025.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said there was no anticipated change to the ethnic studies graduation requirement, which is mandated by school board policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to keeping our community informed as soon as we have an official update,” the statement said.[aside postID=news_12024203 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023_qed-1020x680.jpg']Ethnic studies teachers told KQED they’re worried that a potential pause could turn into a repeal of the class altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no more teachers on special assignment, nobody’s actually teaching ethnic studies, I’ve heard no talk of work groups, there’s no funding to get teachers together to keep on working on the curriculum … then you run into the same issue about access to resources,” Aguirre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander said that an audit of the curriculum is a good idea — especially given valid concerns about certain class materials — but he believes the class should continue in the interim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that a few years ago, when a group of parents approached the district with concerns about racism in the U.S. history curriculum, prompting an audit, “we didn’t stop teaching U.S. history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We analyzed the curriculum and looked at ways that we could improve [it] and make them anti-racist in line with our values,” Alexander told KQED. “That to me seems like the appropriate response when this kind of thing comes up. I’ve never heard of stopping a course because of curriculum concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A larger movement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The decision comes as the state also seems to be backing away from its push to broaden ethnic studies education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation in 2021 mandating a semester in the course for all public school students beginning with the class of 2030, who will enter ninth grade in the fall. The same year, the state board of education adopted a model curriculum for the course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/10.02.2024-SB1016-03-scaled-1-e1733162494960.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing a suit sits at a desk in an office, writing on a piece of paper with an American flag behind him.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say that the move would deviate from the district’s past protocols for handling curriculum changes and raises concerns about the future of the course, which has been heralded as a success for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a course that’s worked for a very long time,” Alexander said. “There doesn’t seem to be any reason for a pause, and it’s something that’s very effective. In fact, it may be the only initiative that we have that actually increases college and career outcomes for students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More than a decade of ethnic studies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Unified School District became one of the first in the nation to introduce ethnic studies after its board of education called for creating a dedicated course in 2008. The field, which has roots in Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830384/how-the-longest-student-strike-in-u-s-history-created-ethnic-studies\">student activism\u003c/a> in the 1960s, includes and examines the experiences of minorities in the United States, typically focusing on the experiences of Indigenous people, as well as Black, Latino and Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, SFUSD launched a pilot program as an elective for high schoolers, which has been offered on all campuses since the 2015–16 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11918617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11918617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8133.jpg\" alt=\"Children and adults hold signs at a demonstration to save a Filipino language program.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8133.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8133-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8133-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8133-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/IMG_8133-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of students and community members demonstrates outside SFUSD headquarters on June 7, 2022, to protest the district’s plan to downsize the Filipino language program at Longfellow Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://ed.stanford.edu/news/ninth-grade-ethnic-studies-helped-students-years-stanford-researchers-find\">2021 study\u003c/a> by Stanford’s Graduate School of Education raised the program’s profile when it found that low-achieving students who participated in SFUSD’s course were more likely to attend and be engaged in school, had higher probabilities of graduating and were more likely to go to college. And a new draft study from UC Irvine this year shows that over the 15 years SFUSD has offered the class, taking ethnic studies in ninth grade boosted the GPAs of students throughout their high school careers, especially among those who identify as Black and Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2021 study persuaded policymakers at the state and local levels. That year, California lawmakers enacted a mandate for public schools to require a semester of ethnic studies, which is set to take effect in 2025. That same year, the San Francisco school board passed legislation making the two-semester course a graduation requirement, beginning with ninth graders entering high school in the fall of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one year after lawmakers passed those measures, three of the school board members who backed the SFUSD plan — and other social justice-oriented changes within the district, including renaming schools and eliminating merit-based admissions at Lowell High School — were overwhelmingly recalled. The contentious vote followed a swell of criticism from parents, particularly in the Asian American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parents and advocacy groups push back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Samantha Aguirre, who has taught ethnic studies in SFUSD since 2015, said she had not heard widespread pushback specifically about the course until this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One parent, Vivian Safrin, began raising concerns about the curriculum to district officials last year, after she said she was shown class materials that concerned her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036911\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[Ethnic studies] is supposed to be an opportunity for students to learn about the histories, cultures, struggles and contributions of ethnic groups in California,” she said. “And at this time, the course in San Francisco is a lot of one-sided political dogma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our kids don’t have context to be able to analyze this material, given that it is being taught before world history, before U.S. history,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticism of the course didn’t break into the mainstream until May, though, following media coverage and a report from a national parents’ group about the class’ content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents Defending Education, which said it aims to protect school districts from “activists imposing harmful agendas,” published an “incident report” criticizing the ethnic studies curriculum’s focus on “white supremacy culture” and support for undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I had never felt that way … and I’m so glad that my children had a different experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We were in the middle of the process’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The teachers who spoke with KQED acknowledged that one of many parents’ resounding concerns with the class was valid: a standardized curriculum for it isn’t complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Aguirre, in the summer of 2021, amid the wider push to expand ethnic studies requirements in the district and across the state, she and other teachers were asked to participate in a working group to develop and vet a more standardized curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046126\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They split into small cohorts focused on each of the course’s four units, swapped and refined lesson plans, and came up with a draft for each of the class’s sections throughout the summers of 2021 and 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the working group had planned to gather to assess their first drafts, give each other feedback and make further changes before delivering a final product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that never happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the summer of 2022, there was no more money or funding to keep doing the process of making the pilot curriculum,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Just ahead of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044243/san-francisco-pride-2025-parade-route-times-street-closures-safety-lgbtq\">Pride festivities\u003c/a> in San Francisco, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move to strip the name of gay rights trailblazer and veteran \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043115/despicable-bay-area-leaders-slam-plan-to-rename-usns-harvey-milk\">Harvey Milk\u003c/a> from a naval ship drew widespread criticism from the LGBTQ+ community and allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ship will now be named after Oscar V. 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But city leaders noted the exceptional circumstances heading into this year’s festivities that they say warrant a heightened level of vigilance and increased public safety presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My top priority remains making sure everyone feels safe and free to be themselves,” Lurie said, listing a spate of city agencies, including the Fire Department and Department of Emergency Management, that have been working closely to “make that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be appropriately staffed and resources effectively deployed throughout the city,” he added. “San Francisco is on the rise, and we’re bringing that momentum into pride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, who spoke to reporters just hours after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045893/sf-supervisors-preserve-millions-for-homeless-prevention-housing-in-budget\">reaching a hard-fought deal\u003c/a> over his two-year budget proposal, called Pride one of the city’s largest and “most meaningful events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046133\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20240630_Pride_GC-29_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20240630_Pride_GC-29_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20240630_Pride_GC-29_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20240630_Pride_GC-29_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spectators celebrate the Pride Parade in San Francisco on June 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a true example of San Franciscans coming together for their values,” he said. “And I know our city will show up like we always do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044243/san-francisco-pride-2025-parade-route-times-street-closures-safety-lgbtq\">This year’s festivities\u003c/a>, which include headliner events at Civic Center, marches and parties throughout the city, and Sunday’s culminating Pride Parade, take place against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023784/after-trumps-order-on-two-genders-trans-rights-groups-taking-action\">assault on trans rights\u003c/a> and its aggressive crackdown on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dei\">diversity, equity and inclusion efforts\u003c/a>. Of the 932 reported anti-LGBTQ+ incidents across the United States in the past year, more than half targeted transgender and gender-nonconforming people, a marked increase over the previous year, according to a May \u003ca href=\"https://glaad.org/glaad-alert-desk-data-shows-dramatic-rise-in-anti-trans-hate-incidents/\">report\u003c/a> from the LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As such, the theme of this year’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/theme/\">event \u003c/a>is “Queer Joy is Resistance,” which organizers said “serves as a unifying message and a reflection of the current social and political climate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The celebration comes as a growing number of longtime corporate sponsors of the event have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031588/san-francisco-pride-struggles-secure-sponsorships-ahead-2025-parade\">withdrawn their financial support\u003c/a> this year — seemingly to avoid retaliation from the Trump administration — leaving SF Pride about $180,000 short of its $2.3 million fundraising goal, the \u003cem>San Francisco Standard \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/20/sf-pride-fundraising-struggles-donor-dropouts-trump/\">reported\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12044243 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1020x680.jpg']SF Pride declined KQED’s request for an interview. In a statement, the group said it has been working closely with the Mayor’s office and Police Department, enlisted scores of volunteers, and invested heavily in safety infrastructure, including private security and barricades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we recognize heightened concerns nationally, our level of preparation this year is consistent with what we do every year to keep our community safe and proud,” Suzanne Ford, SF Pride executive director, said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Thursday’s press conference, San Francisco Deputy Police Chief Derrick Lew acknowledged the event was a “heavy lift” for law enforcement, but said it was “also an opportunity to show SF is a safe city” and a refuge for the queer community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>As you all are aware, this year also brings new concerns and challenges,” he said. “Tensions are heightened due to national and global events, but our message is clear: San Francisco is ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with increased staffing over the weekend, Lew said his department is prepared to call up additional resources if necessary, in light of the “unknowns coming from the spontaneous protests and whatnot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also know in law enforcement that historically this has been a weekend where we often experience a great deal of crime,” added San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who said her office is ready to prosecute any lawbreakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so I’m here to say that we are setting the tone now, that if you were thinking of committing hate crimes, robberies, breaking into anyone’s car, San Francisco is not the place,” she said. “So celebrate safely, celebrate wisely. And happy Pride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Safety officials are encouraging people to call 911 for emergencies and 311 for non-emergencies. Attendees can also sign up for text message alerts at alertsf.org or by texting their zip code to 888-777. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045531/lake-tahoe-boat-accidents-7th-victim-is-found-by-divers-1-person-still-missing\">Eight people died last weekend on Lake Tahoe\u003c/a> in a boat accident during a rare June storm, three of them from the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The powerful storm flipped their boat near the southern reaches of the lake, in a sudden weather shift that took aback beachgoers on the shore, who were expecting a warm summer day out on the lake, and also dusted \u003ca href=\"https://www.powder.com/news/summer-snow-blankets-california-ski-resort\">nearby mountaintops with fresh snow.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This storm, known as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/bmx/outreach_microbursts\">microburst\u003c/a>, blew through the region quickly, bringing wind gusts up to 35 mph and creating waves up to 10 feet high, witnessed at the lake, according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Oakland resident Matt Savener, an avid backpacker who was on a camping trip in Desolation Wilderness, and who called off his attempt to summit \u003ca href=\"https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2568\">Dick’s Peak \u003c/a>when the storm rolled in. “And just with no warning whatsoever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from monitoring stations in Tahoe City since 1910 compiled by Jan Null, certified consulting meteorologist for Golden Gate Weather Services, shows snow in Tahoe in June is uncommon. Nonetheless, it \u003cem>does \u003c/em>happen about once every five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"June snowfall (in inches) in Tahoe City from 1910 to 2024\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-0mcZf\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0mcZf/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know to stay prepared for any weather event when visiting the mountains in the summer, especially if you have never considered that these types of storms could happen to you at this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jump straight to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Alwayschecktheforecastfirst\">Always check the forecast first\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whattoknowifyoureouthikingduringamicroburst\">What to know if you’re out hiking during a microburst\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Ifyouredrivingoveramountainpasshereswhattoknow\">If you’re driving over a mountain pass, here’s what to know\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Howtoprepareifyoureheadingoutonthewaterthissummer\">How to prepare if you’re heading out on the water this summer\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Alwayschecktheforecastfirst\">\u003c/a>Always check the forecast, but prepare for the worst\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Matthew Chyba, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said that while these kinds of afternoon thunderstorms aren’t uncommon for Tahoe in the summer, the suddenness of this storm took many people by surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=39.2095&lon=-119.9299\">That’s why checking the forecast\u003c/a> and paying attention to any signs of \u003cem>potential \u003c/em>bad weather is important, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@cnn/video/7519214997893942583\" data-video-id=\"7519214997893942583\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@cnn\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@cnn?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@cnn\u003c/a>A sudden storm rolled in over Lake Tahoe causing extreme conditions while people were enjoying a sunny summer day.\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - CNN\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7519215123274189581?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – CNN\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On the Saturday of the storm, the Tahoe region had “about a 30% to 50% chance of rain, with about a 15% chance for an isolated thunderstorm in there,” Chyba said, in addition to a dramatic temperature drop from the week’s warmer weather. “Calm conditions could turn really dangerous suddenly if a sudden shower or thunderstorm pops up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Hunter Schnabel said the weather conditions around Lake Tahoe deteriorated so rapidly and unexpectedly over the course of the day that “even if you were paying attention to the forecast, you probably would not have seen this coming,” he said. So, preparing for any worst-case weather is key, Schnabel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what, when you’re headed out in the water, ensure you have all your safety equipment with you, you check the weather and have emergency plans,” he said. “Try to prepare for what you can with these incidents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If you’re \u003ca id=\"Whattoknowifyoureouthikingduringamicroburst\">\u003c/a>out hiking, bring rain gear just in case\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/laketahoebasin/safety-ethics\">U.S. Forest Service’s safety advice\u003c/a> for Lake Tahoe visitors is clear: Every hiker, whether you’re out for a couple of hours or a couple of days, should keep in mind that weather conditions can change rapidly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site also advises travelers to carry a basic first aid kit, to try to save any dangerous travel for daylight hours and to check the weather before you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Tahoe2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Tahoe2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Tahoe2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Tahoe2-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Savener and his group of backpackers were heading to the summit of Dick’s Peak in Desolation Wilderness near Lake Tahoe when a storm rolled through, dusting snow on the mountains on June 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matt Savener)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Savener, who was using \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/bayview-trail-to-velma-lakes\">Lower Velma Lake\u003c/a> as his group’s camping spot for three nights in Desolation Wilderness, said he checked the forecast before heading out and knew there would be some cold weather coming in, “so we packed accordingly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, he was the only hiker of his group to bring a rain layer; all his other friends only had puffy jackets, which soaked through easily. And when he used his InReach satellite messaging device to get the weather forecast the morning of the storm, it showed 0% chance of precipitation, “so we weren’t worried about precipitation at all,” he said. So with sunny skies overhead, he and his group headed out to summit Dick’s Peak.[aside postID=news_11910495 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55017_GettyImages-1387412608-qut-672x372.jpg']By the time they got up to the pass, where you can see \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/dicks-peak--2\">sweeping views of Lake Tahoe\u003c/a>, he saw the storm gathering and the rain beginning from afar. Knowing how technical and exposed the terrain would be at the top, since summiting this peak requires some amount of rock scrambling, Savener decided to turn around just around 200 feet short of the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The snow started shortly after we left Dick’s Pass and started to descend,” Savener said. “It snowed on us for a solid hour while we were hiking, and it collected quite a bit. There was probably about an inch of snow on the ground and on us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time they got back to camp, the weather had passed and the group “just enjoyed our luck, basically,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [the storm] had moved in any faster … that could have been super dangerous. That’s ‘fall and die’ kind of territory,” Savener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wilderness is humbling, and I learn something every time I go out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Ifyouredrivingoveramountainpasshereswhattoknow\">\u003c/a>If you’re driving, go slow and stay aware\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last weekend’s snow even caught drivers off guard, as the California Highway Patrol reported \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CHP_Truckee/status/1936537204198666554\">multiple collisions over Donner Summit during the storm. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CHP_Truckee/status/1936537708186472910\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you usually avoid Tahoe in the winter or aren’t comfortable driving in snow, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chp.ca.gov/programs-services/services-information/winter-driving-tips\">the California Highway Patrol publishes a helpful guide for navigating snow country in your car\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937204/lake-tahoe-weather-forecast-road-conditions-snow-chains\">KQED also has a guide to navigating winter driving\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some key things to keep in mind:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Move slowly, the wetter the roads, the less safe you are at high speeds\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Keep your gas tank full in case you have to change routes or have to turn around\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bring extra food, water and clothing in case of an emergency.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If bad weather rolls in, you can always \u003ca href=\"https://www.chp.ca.gov/news-alerts\">check road conditions on the CHP website\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/\">the CalTrans QuickMap app\u003c/a> or by calling the Caltrans hotline at 1-800-427-ROAD.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Howtoprepareifyoureheadingoutonthewaterthissummer\">\u003c/a>If you’re in a boat, wear a life jacket …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Scnhabel said while the weekend storm was unexpected, it’s important to stay prepared for any weather event when visiting Tahoe. That includes having and using life jackets, \u003ca href=\"https://laketahoewatertrail.org/boating-regulations/#:~:text=Carry%20or%20wear%20a%20Coast,during%20times%20of%20restricted%20visibility\">no matter what size boat you are on.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what, when you’re headed out in the water, ensure you have all your safety equipment with you, you check the weather and have emergency plans,” Schnabel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://tahoe.ucdavis.edu/lake-conditions\">check water conditions ahead of time\u003c/a>. The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center has 10 nearshore monitoring stations and four buoy-based stations that \u003ca href=\"https://tahoe.ucdavis.edu/real-time-conditions\">provide real-time information about conditions at the lake\u003c/a>, plus \u003ca href=\"https://tahoe.ucdavis.edu/modeled-conditions\">a three-day forecast\u003c/a>, which Hollis said can help you prepare for any trip on the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can help you plan your trips based on water temperature, water currents, and wave heights,” said Cara Hollis, communications and marketing specialist at TERC.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>… and watch for winds on the water\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the case of last weekend, the day went from calm to not-so-calm very quickly, which can happen as a storm builds in the basin, Hollis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Winds do typically come in from the west, but that’s going to be extremely variable as winds swirl and then, of course, as storm directions change,” Hollis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, “the storm came from the north,” Chyba said. “It traveled across the entire lake. And it was building up, building up and reached its peak in the southern part,” contributing to Saturday’s fatal boat accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046093\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Tahoe3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Tahoe3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Tahoe3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Tahoe3-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heading to the summit of Dick’s Peak in Desolation Wilderness near Lake Tahoe as a storm rolled in, dusting snow on the mountains on June 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matt Savener)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>TERC’s wave height monitors only measure up to 5 feet, so they didn’t capture the full extent of the conditions last weekend, Hollis said. But data from their monitors at some locations does \u003ca href=\"https://tahoe.ucdavis.edu/real-time-conditions\">show the sharp decrease in water temperatures\u003c/a> that the NWS reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically, what happens when it’s very windy is you’ll get mixing, which will bring colder water up from deeper depths,” Hollis said. “That’s when you get those big temperature drops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Cane, field lab director for TERC, said being able to recognize the signs of a storm coming in — and being ready to make decisions to keep yourself safe — is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll pay attention to large clouds falling over the mountains, which could signify thundershowers — or look in the distance to see if there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.surfertoday.com/environment/what-are-whitecaps\">whitecaps\u003c/a> coming towards me,” Cane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t wait until [things] get so bad to where it’s actually a dangerous situation,” he urged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting by KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">\u003cem>Katie DeBenedetti\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Oakland resident Matt Savener, an avid backpacker who was on a camping trip in Desolation Wilderness, and who called off his attempt to summit \u003ca href=\"https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2568\">Dick’s Peak \u003c/a>when the storm rolled in. “And just with no warning whatsoever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from monitoring stations in Tahoe City since 1910 compiled by Jan Null, certified consulting meteorologist for Golden Gate Weather Services, shows snow in Tahoe in June is uncommon. Nonetheless, it \u003cem>does \u003c/em>happen about once every five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"June snowfall (in inches) in Tahoe City from 1910 to 2024\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-0mcZf\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0mcZf/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know to stay prepared for any weather event when visiting the mountains in the summer, especially if you have never considered that these types of storms could happen to you at this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jump straight to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Alwayschecktheforecastfirst\">Always check the forecast first\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whattoknowifyoureouthikingduringamicroburst\">What to know if you’re out hiking during a microburst\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Ifyouredrivingoveramountainpasshereswhattoknow\">If you’re driving over a mountain pass, here’s what to know\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Howtoprepareifyoureheadingoutonthewaterthissummer\">How to prepare if you’re heading out on the water this summer\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Alwayschecktheforecastfirst\">\u003c/a>Always check the forecast, but prepare for the worst\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Matthew Chyba, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said that while these kinds of afternoon thunderstorms aren’t uncommon for Tahoe in the summer, the suddenness of this storm took many people by surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=39.2095&lon=-119.9299\">That’s why checking the forecast\u003c/a> and paying attention to any signs of \u003cem>potential \u003c/em>bad weather is important, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@cnn/video/7519214997893942583\" data-video-id=\"7519214997893942583\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@cnn\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@cnn?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@cnn\u003c/a>A sudden storm rolled in over Lake Tahoe causing extreme conditions while people were enjoying a sunny summer day.\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - CNN\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7519215123274189581?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – CNN\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On the Saturday of the storm, the Tahoe region had “about a 30% to 50% chance of rain, with about a 15% chance for an isolated thunderstorm in there,” Chyba said, in addition to a dramatic temperature drop from the week’s warmer weather. “Calm conditions could turn really dangerous suddenly if a sudden shower or thunderstorm pops up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Hunter Schnabel said the weather conditions around Lake Tahoe deteriorated so rapidly and unexpectedly over the course of the day that “even if you were paying attention to the forecast, you probably would not have seen this coming,” he said. So, preparing for any worst-case weather is key, Schnabel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what, when you’re headed out in the water, ensure you have all your safety equipment with you, you check the weather and have emergency plans,” he said. “Try to prepare for what you can with these incidents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If you’re \u003ca id=\"Whattoknowifyoureouthikingduringamicroburst\">\u003c/a>out hiking, bring rain gear just in case\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/laketahoebasin/safety-ethics\">U.S. Forest Service’s safety advice\u003c/a> for Lake Tahoe visitors is clear: Every hiker, whether you’re out for a couple of hours or a couple of days, should keep in mind that weather conditions can change rapidly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site also advises travelers to carry a basic first aid kit, to try to save any dangerous travel for daylight hours and to check the weather before you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Tahoe2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Tahoe2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Tahoe2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Tahoe2-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Savener and his group of backpackers were heading to the summit of Dick’s Peak in Desolation Wilderness near Lake Tahoe when a storm rolled through, dusting snow on the mountains on June 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matt Savener)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Savener, who was using \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/bayview-trail-to-velma-lakes\">Lower Velma Lake\u003c/a> as his group’s camping spot for three nights in Desolation Wilderness, said he checked the forecast before heading out and knew there would be some cold weather coming in, “so we packed accordingly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, he was the only hiker of his group to bring a rain layer; all his other friends only had puffy jackets, which soaked through easily. 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That includes having and using life jackets, \u003ca href=\"https://laketahoewatertrail.org/boating-regulations/#:~:text=Carry%20or%20wear%20a%20Coast,during%20times%20of%20restricted%20visibility\">no matter what size boat you are on.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what, when you’re headed out in the water, ensure you have all your safety equipment with you, you check the weather and have emergency plans,” Schnabel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://tahoe.ucdavis.edu/lake-conditions\">check water conditions ahead of time\u003c/a>. The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center has 10 nearshore monitoring stations and four buoy-based stations that \u003ca href=\"https://tahoe.ucdavis.edu/real-time-conditions\">provide real-time information about conditions at the lake\u003c/a>, plus \u003ca href=\"https://tahoe.ucdavis.edu/modeled-conditions\">a three-day forecast\u003c/a>, which Hollis said can help you prepare for any trip on the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can help you plan your trips based on water temperature, water currents, and wave heights,” said Cara Hollis, communications and marketing specialist at TERC.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>… and watch for winds on the water\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the case of last weekend, the day went from calm to not-so-calm very quickly, which can happen as a storm builds in the basin, Hollis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Winds do typically come in from the west, but that’s going to be extremely variable as winds swirl and then, of course, as storm directions change,” Hollis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, “the storm came from the north,” Chyba said. “It traveled across the entire lake. 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"content": "\u003cp>Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is backing down — somewhat — from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044180/spike-in-homelessness-stalled-after-sf-started-these-programs-lurie-is-slashing-them\">his effort\u003c/a> to sweep money set aside for homeless prevention programs and permanent housing to instead fund temporary shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044717/dozens-of-protesters-disrupt-sf-supervisors-meeting-to-resist-city-job-cuts\">community groups and experts\u003c/a> warned that the mayor’s plan, proposed last month, could inadvertently inflate the need for temporary shelter if more permanent housing is not available for people to move into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect, but it’s way better than where we started,” said Christin Evans, co-chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “If you put all your investment into shelter, you aren’t ending homelessness. You’re perpetuating homelessness and warehousing people. So we need more housing that people can exit shelter into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 14 hours of tense closed-door negotiations, the city’s Budget and Appropriations Committee at 2 a.m. Thursday voted to move the amended $16 billion budget proposal forward to the full Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors also preserved funding for 57 of 100 filled jobs that Lurie had proposed to cut to help balance the city’s nearly $800 million deficit. Lurie had proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">eliminating around 1,400 positions\u003c/a>, most of which are currently vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Passing this budget also required painful decisions that were, unfortunately, necessary to set up our entire city for success,” Lurie said in a statement on Thursday morning. “Leadership means making those tough decisions, and this group of city leaders did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie delivers remarks on a progress report of his first 100 days in office at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in San Francisco on April 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s initial plan would have reappropriated nearly $88 million from the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to generate revenue for homeless services by taxing the city’s wealthiest businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, about 50% of Proposition C dollars are slated for permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After weeks of negotiations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts\">protests\u003c/a> from community advocates, the mayor and supervisors agreed to reallocate $34 million toward shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of services, a lot of restorations that we are used to being able to make possible that won’t be reflective of this budget,” Supervisor Shamann Walton said at the marathon hearing. “But most certainly we did work hard to do everything we could to continue critical services.”[aside postID=news_12045555 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-SF-BUDGET-ACTIVISTS-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg']Much of the friction came down to whether Lurie would need a supermajority to make changes to the funding allocations, which were established in the law approved by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the proposal have asserted that the move could potentially violate the law. San Francisco’s city attorney released a memo warning of legal risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this even legal?” Supervisor Jackie Fielder said at the meeting. “It’s absurd that I have to ask that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie must still present legislation to the Board of Supervisors in order to shift the funding. The committee ultimately voted to release its power and require only a simple majority in order to reallocate up to $19 million in future revenue from the Our City, Our Home fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not unreasonable, especially within a limited period of time, to give this new administration a modest amount of flexibility with unanticipated extra funds that may come in,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other supervisors fired back at the idea, saying the board was caving to the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This mayor wants you to give up the last thing we have, which is the will of the voters,” Fielder said. “I’m hearing people say, ‘What’s the big deal?’ The big deal is precedent … The big deal is democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials are unlikely to make substantive changes to the budget after this week’s vote. The entire board will consider the budget on July 15 and must send it to the mayor for his signature before Aug. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can be assured that, as someone who has been in and out of that room and walking down this hall, this is not everything that Mayor Lurie wants,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, chair of the budget committee. “A great portion of it is really what the board wants, too, for the people who elected us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie made solving street homelessness a central part of his platform while running for mayor last year. Since taking office in January, he’s launched a handful of initiatives aimed at targeting homelessness from different angles, as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031581/first-look-sf-mayor-luries-yearlong-plan-homelessness-response\">his “Breaking the Cycle” plan\u003c/a>. So far, it’s included opening up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">drop-in behavioral health site in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>, consolidating street crisis response teams and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034214/san-francisco-ends-health-programs-for-drug-users-not-active-in-treatment\">walking back some publicly-funded overdose prevention programs\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12045887 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ggbridge_003_qed.jpg']This spring, Lurie also launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040581/to-revitalize-downtown-sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-taps-citys-wealthy-elite\">a public-private fund to raise money\u003c/a> for building more temporary shelter beds. Even with private sector support, however, Lurie will not meet a key campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds in his first six months in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor has said the city needs more shelter beds in order to get more people off the street quicker and connected to other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am confident that this budget answers San Francisco’s call for us to build a safer, cleaner and thriving San Francisco,” Lurie said in a press conference on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because there is not enough housing for people to move into after they land in a shelter. Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller using data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1991px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1991\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg 1991w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1991px) 100vw, 1991px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor triage center at the 469 Stevenson St. parking lot in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who were arrested get dropped off, where they can either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operating as a 30-day pilot program, also offers resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates feared that stripping money set aside for homeless prevention could cause more people to become homeless, increasing the immediate need for temporary shelters. Without enough permanent supportive housing, advocates said, the city would exacerbate the bottleneck of people entering and exiting the homelessness response system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about creating balance between shelter and housing,” Evans said. “That’s where we landed, instead of putting all our investments into one part of the system: building shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community advocates agree that the city could use more shelter beds. But concerns that funding temporary beds at the expense of prevention programs and housing that people can move into after a shelter stay have been a sticking point in budget negotiations this month, which have also addressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts#:~:text=Lurie's%20proposal%20balances%20a%20%24782,positions%20across%2040%20different%20departments.\">Lurie’s proposed cuts to nonprofits\u003c/a> and legal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a deep sense of anger and sadness as nonprofits will have to close their doors. Many services were not saved,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, an organizer with the People’s Budget Coalition, a group of around 150 organizations fighting against the proposed layoffs and cuts to community services. “But we are deeply proud of the services we were able to restore, like general legal aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Much of the friction came down to whether Lurie would need a supermajority to make changes to the funding allocations, which were established in the law approved by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the proposal have asserted that the move could potentially violate the law. San Francisco’s city attorney released a memo warning of legal risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this even legal?” Supervisor Jackie Fielder said at the meeting. “It’s absurd that I have to ask that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie must still present legislation to the Board of Supervisors in order to shift the funding. The committee ultimately voted to release its power and require only a simple majority in order to reallocate up to $19 million in future revenue from the Our City, Our Home fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not unreasonable, especially within a limited period of time, to give this new administration a modest amount of flexibility with unanticipated extra funds that may come in,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other supervisors fired back at the idea, saying the board was caving to the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This mayor wants you to give up the last thing we have, which is the will of the voters,” Fielder said. “I’m hearing people say, ‘What’s the big deal?’ The big deal is precedent … The big deal is democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials are unlikely to make substantive changes to the budget after this week’s vote. The entire board will consider the budget on July 15 and must send it to the mayor for his signature before Aug. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can be assured that, as someone who has been in and out of that room and walking down this hall, this is not everything that Mayor Lurie wants,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, chair of the budget committee. “A great portion of it is really what the board wants, too, for the people who elected us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie made solving street homelessness a central part of his platform while running for mayor last year. Since taking office in January, he’s launched a handful of initiatives aimed at targeting homelessness from different angles, as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031581/first-look-sf-mayor-luries-yearlong-plan-homelessness-response\">his “Breaking the Cycle” plan\u003c/a>. So far, it’s included opening up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">drop-in behavioral health site in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>, consolidating street crisis response teams and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034214/san-francisco-ends-health-programs-for-drug-users-not-active-in-treatment\">walking back some publicly-funded overdose prevention programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This spring, Lurie also launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040581/to-revitalize-downtown-sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-taps-citys-wealthy-elite\">a public-private fund to raise money\u003c/a> for building more temporary shelter beds. Even with private sector support, however, Lurie will not meet a key campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds in his first six months in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor has said the city needs more shelter beds in order to get more people off the street quicker and connected to other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am confident that this budget answers San Francisco’s call for us to build a safer, cleaner and thriving San Francisco,” Lurie said in a press conference on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because there is not enough housing for people to move into after they land in a shelter. Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller using data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1991px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1991\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg 1991w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1991px) 100vw, 1991px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor triage center at the 469 Stevenson St. parking lot in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who were arrested get dropped off, where they can either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operating as a 30-day pilot program, also offers resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates feared that stripping money set aside for homeless prevention could cause more people to become homeless, increasing the immediate need for temporary shelters. Without enough permanent supportive housing, advocates said, the city would exacerbate the bottleneck of people entering and exiting the homelessness response system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about creating balance between shelter and housing,” Evans said. “That’s where we landed, instead of putting all our investments into one part of the system: building shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community advocates agree that the city could use more shelter beds. But concerns that funding temporary beds at the expense of prevention programs and housing that people can move into after a shelter stay have been a sticking point in budget negotiations this month, which have also addressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts#:~:text=Lurie's%20proposal%20balances%20a%20%24782,positions%20across%2040%20different%20departments.\">Lurie’s proposed cuts to nonprofits\u003c/a> and legal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a deep sense of anger and sadness as nonprofits will have to close their doors. Many services were not saved,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, an organizer with the People’s Budget Coalition, a group of around 150 organizations fighting against the proposed layoffs and cuts to community services. “But we are deeply proud of the services we were able to restore, like general legal aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992072/dyke-march-canceled-for-san-francisco-pride-organizers-say\">San Francisco Dyke March\u003c/a> will return to Dolores Park this weekend as an organized march and rally for the first time in six years, and it’s more inclusive than ever, according to its new leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim leadership has worked for the last year to mount a comeback on Saturday after the last leaders resigned two weeks before last year’s Pride weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slogan for this year is “Dyke Solidarity, Dyke Resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this time of immense oppression from our regime in power, visibility is critical to show that we care about the world that’s happening around us, and we deserve to take space and to exhibit the power that we have,” said M Rocket, interim project director for the march.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-running Pride institution has been taking place at Dolores Park since the early 1990s, but since 2018, the Dyke March organizing group dwindled due to internal conflicts around racism and trans inclusion, the deaths of several leaders and burnout. Smaller renegade marches have taken place instead in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032189\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The license plate of a Harley Davidson at the end of the San Francisco Dyke March at Dolores Park on June 25, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A group of four queer organizers wanted to bring the Dyke March back in full force, and it turned out they weren’t the only ones. The interim steering committee held four town halls over the last eight months to gauge interest and gather support, and found more than 200 people passionate about the march to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people still see the Dyke March as some sort of authoritative entity. And it’s not,” Rocket said. “It’s a loose organization made up of dedicated volunteers who care about keeping it going. And all of us are in positions of service, not of authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the steering committee, “dyke” is more than a sexuality or a reclaimed slur; it’s a political identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town halls were a forum for sometimes heated debates about what the organization’s values would be, especially around the inclusion of transgender people and opposing Israel’s war in Gaza. The group took feedback from community members and published their \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedykemarch.org/about\">value statement\u003c/a> in May, which proclaims they are “against war, imperialism, and all forms of genocide,” embraces all gender expressions and sexualities, and declares bodily autonomy an “absolute right.”[aside postID=news_12044243 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/017_KQED_SFPrideParade_06262022-1020x680.jpg']“There had been trouble in years past of trans exclusionists, you know, dykes not wanting trans people in our spaces, which is absurd,” Rocket said. “Trans dykes are dykes, and so we wanted to ensure that that was explicit throughout all of our values and it’s the most trans-positive set of values to come out of the Dyke March ever. I’m really proud of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group expects up to 20,000 people to show up at Dolores Park on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocket estimates the cost of running the march and rally is around $80,000, including the cost of city permits and trash, bathroom and medical services at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interim steering committee has so far \u003ca href=\"https://give.communityin.org/sfdykemarch25?ref=ab_7nso2pFFiWl7nso2pFFiWl\">raised nearly $70,000\u003c/a>, and will hold a final \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moby-dyke-night-fundraiser-for-the-san-francisco-dyke-march-tickets-1415441316079?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios\">pre-Pride fundraiser\u003c/a> at Moby Dick bar in the Castro on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really excited for the rally in the park,” Rocket said. “That’s my favorite part, is to exhibit our power, our visibility, our art and culture, and our activism from the platform of the stage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday with music, drag, comedy and speeches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Performers include East Bay band Skip the Needle, jazz pianist Tammy Hall, comedian Marga Gomez and drag king Leigh Crow. Speakers include Imani Rupert-Gordon, executive director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights in San Francisco; retired San Francisco Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson, who was the first openly LGBTQ chief of the SFFD; and Franco Stevens, founder of the Curve Foundation and Curve Magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the rally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DLQUDi2yhy2/\">the march\u003c/a> will leave from and return to Dolores Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Dyke March leaders will hold another town hall to roll out a new organizational membership model, and then hold elections for a new board in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this time of immense oppression from our regime in power, visibility is critical to show that we care about the world that’s happening around us, and we deserve to take space and to exhibit the power that we have,” said M Rocket, interim project director for the march.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-running Pride institution has been taking place at Dolores Park since the early 1990s, but since 2018, the Dyke March organizing group dwindled due to internal conflicts around racism and trans inclusion, the deaths of several leaders and burnout. Smaller renegade marches have taken place instead in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032189\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/040_KQEDArts_SFDykeMarch_06252022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The license plate of a Harley Davidson at the end of the San Francisco Dyke March at Dolores Park on June 25, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A group of four queer organizers wanted to bring the Dyke March back in full force, and it turned out they weren’t the only ones. The interim steering committee held four town halls over the last eight months to gauge interest and gather support, and found more than 200 people passionate about the march to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people still see the Dyke March as some sort of authoritative entity. And it’s not,” Rocket said. “It’s a loose organization made up of dedicated volunteers who care about keeping it going. And all of us are in positions of service, not of authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the steering committee, “dyke” is more than a sexuality or a reclaimed slur; it’s a political identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town halls were a forum for sometimes heated debates about what the organization’s values would be, especially around the inclusion of transgender people and opposing Israel’s war in Gaza. The group took feedback from community members and published their \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedykemarch.org/about\">value statement\u003c/a> in May, which proclaims they are “against war, imperialism, and all forms of genocide,” embraces all gender expressions and sexualities, and declares bodily autonomy an “absolute right.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There had been trouble in years past of trans exclusionists, you know, dykes not wanting trans people in our spaces, which is absurd,” Rocket said. “Trans dykes are dykes, and so we wanted to ensure that that was explicit throughout all of our values and it’s the most trans-positive set of values to come out of the Dyke March ever. I’m really proud of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group expects up to 20,000 people to show up at Dolores Park on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocket estimates the cost of running the march and rally is around $80,000, including the cost of city permits and trash, bathroom and medical services at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interim steering committee has so far \u003ca href=\"https://give.communityin.org/sfdykemarch25?ref=ab_7nso2pFFiWl7nso2pFFiWl\">raised nearly $70,000\u003c/a>, and will hold a final \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moby-dyke-night-fundraiser-for-the-san-francisco-dyke-march-tickets-1415441316079?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios\">pre-Pride fundraiser\u003c/a> at Moby Dick bar in the Castro on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really excited for the rally in the park,” Rocket said. “That’s my favorite part, is to exhibit our power, our visibility, our art and culture, and our activism from the platform of the stage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday with music, drag, comedy and speeches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Performers include East Bay band Skip the Needle, jazz pianist Tammy Hall, comedian Marga Gomez and drag king Leigh Crow. Speakers include Imani Rupert-Gordon, executive director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights in San Francisco; retired San Francisco Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson, who was the first openly LGBTQ chief of the SFFD; and Franco Stevens, founder of the Curve Foundation and Curve Magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the rally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DLQUDi2yhy2/\">the march\u003c/a> will leave from and return to Dolores Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Dyke March leaders will hold another town hall to roll out a new organizational membership model, and then hold elections for a new board in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The only way to get that power back on for a 77-year-old with severe mobility issues — who has no light, no power, no heat — is to go to court and sue and get a court order ordering that landlord to turn that power on and to not change the keys,” Chiera said. “That was funded by the funding that’s being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition is especially concerned about reduced services for immigrants, given the recent escalation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget plan cuts $250,000 from the Office of Civic Engagement and Immigration Affairs during its second year, and makes deep cuts to nonprofits that serve immigrant families in need of legal support and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042887/ice-arrests-15-people-in-san-francisco-including-a-child\">at least 20 people\u003c/a> have been disappeared by ICE agents at court hearings and asylum case check-ins in San Francisco. In Southern California, ICE agents have arrested people at high school graduations, workplaces and gas stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant families are being torn apart at schools, at workplaces, and in communities,” Lau said. “Some are afraid to go to school, some are afraid to go work and those who do go to work are afraid to speak up when their rights are being violated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036905\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with SFMTA employees at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She called on the supervisors to increase funding for the city’s Rapid Response Network, which verifies and reports ICE raids, and protect immigrant-oriented food security programs and mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around noon, nearly two hours into the marathon comment period, coalition leaders unrolled banners over the City Hall rotunda’s second- and third-story railings that read “No Cuts!” and “New Jail steals $$ from crucial services,” referring to the ongoing funding for the San Bruno annex. Organizers lined the stairs of the room with signs urging the supervisors to “Protect Immigrants Rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about five minutes, sheriff’s officers confiscated the banners, but the long line of commenters winding through the caverns stayed put for another six hours, organizer Anya Worley-Ziegmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We appeal to the Board of Supervisors today to look at options,” said Joe Wilson, the executive director of Hospitality House, a community center that serves the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods. “Options create possibilities, possibilities create hope. Hope is what we need in this budget … and we need a board that fights for hopefulness and fights for its people every single day of the year, not just on budget day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Budget and Appropriations committee will reconvene to discuss amendments to the city’s budget on Wednesday, after which it will advance to the whole board for a vote, likely on the July 1 deadline next Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The three other victims, Teresa Giullari, 66, James Guck, 69, and Stephen Lindsay, 63, were visiting from upstate New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pickles had worked in strategic sourcing and procurement for DoorDash for more than six years, and previously, he had stints with Bay Area-based Salesforce and Cisco. 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